With 0.17 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.17 million shares. During the session, the Insurance – Property & Casualty company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $445.54 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $436.22. The 52-week range on KNSL shows that it touched its highest point at $548.47 and its lowest point at $355.12 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $477.00. With its current market cap of 10.16 billion, KNSL has annualized dividend of $0.60 while the current yield stands at 0.14%. KNSL paid its most recent dividend on 1732838400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1732838400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.16.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of KNSL was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 4.77%, but this was down by -13.09% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -7.41% while six-month performance rose 12.25%. The stock gained 11.10% in the past year, while it has lost -6.19% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for KNSL yields 17.54 with Next year EPS estimates of 18.07. For the next quarter, that number is 4.34. This implies an EPS growth rate of 25.74% for this year and 14.95% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 15.00% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 53.36%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 23.29 million KNSL shares are outstanding with a float of 22.05 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 1.28 million, which was 550.0 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. Michael Patrick Kehoe J.D. as the firm’s Chairman of the Board & CEO, Mr. Brian Donald Haney serves as its President & COO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.88153 of KNSL’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for KNSL since 6 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 3 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 3 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With KNSL analysts setting a high price target of 593.0 and a low target of 412.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 483.1111. Based on these targets, KNSL could surge 35.9% to reach the target high and fall by -5.58% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 10.72% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $16.23947 being high and $14.66467 being low. For KNSL, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $15.71788.
